Jack,
Perhaps you should warn people if they receive an attachment from an
unknown source--they might want to be cautious about opening it! If I
don't know the person sending me an attactment--I "Trash" it.
Jim
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At 06:22 PM 2/26/98 -0500, you wrote:
>At 21:29 02/26/98 UT, you wrote:
>>This is another Internet hoax, Rae... You can't get a virus from an
>email, no
>>matter what the email's "Subject line" has on it.
>>
>>Barb Mallut
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> Right on, Barb! The only way email can provide a virus is via an
> attachment which turns out to be a program which the receiver in
> turn executes. There apparently are some word processing virus'
> but again one must execute the attachment to enable the virus.
>
> Opening E-Mail will NOT give you a virus...........unless you are
> like me and receive the whole list of messages that the folks
> send to alert you of the virus.
>
> This is more like Spamming the net since the helpful person (and that
> includes most of us.....note I didn't necessarily include myself) is
> trying to alert others of a potential problem. Those who start this
> type of Spam are sitting back chuckling about how many messages will
> be sent by unsuspecting persons trying to go good.........
>
> Best wishes.........Jack
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